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Bible ThoughtforToday HOW TO OVERCOME EVIL Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love in honor prefer ung one another recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all men. Be not overcome with evil, but overcome e\il with good.Romans 12:10, 17, 21 GET BUSY WITH THE U. S. SENA- TORS. The Dyer anti-lynching bill has been passed by the house of repre sentatives and is now in the senate in the hands of the judiciary commit tee If the judiciary committee reports the Dyer bill, its enactment by the senate is almost certain. The sena tois on that committee are: Knute Nelson, Minnesota William P. Dillingham, Vermont Frank B. Biandegee, Connecticut William E. Borah, Idaho Albert B. Cummins, Iowa LeBaron B. Colt, Rhode Island Thomas Sterling, South Dakota Geo. W. Norris, Nebraska Richard P. Ernst, Kentucky Samuel M. Short ndge, California Charles A. Culber son, Texas Lee S. Overman, North Carolina James A. Reed, Missouri Henry F. Ashurst, Arizona John K. Shields, Tennessee Thomas J. Walsh, Montana. Now is the time to write or tele giaph the members of the judiciary committee and ask them to support the bill. It is especially important that the people of Minnesota flood Senator Nelson with letters and tel egrams asking him to vote for a fav orable report on the bill. The out look is favorable but work must be done to make assurance doubly sure. THERE IS A DIFFERENCE. The "jimcrow negroes" who are continually repeating "the North is no better than the South" know they are lying when they utter such rot. The oppression of the colored people is xten thousandfold greater in the South than in the North. Ninety per cent of the lynching occurs in the South, and" ALL of the disfranchise ment and jimcrow laws. i thi W.e1 1 so aken wa tur w*sn len. Petsiiis who send silver to us in letters shortly after. About midnight the Each auditionui line io cents- Payment get the wounded colored man and strictly'n advance, and to be announced at i._i. i.- in i. all must come in season to be news,. lynch him. Exasperat eed Adve. tising rates, 15 cents per agate line, each that he was dead, them insertion There are fourteen agate lines +t, ,v in an inch, and about seven words an agate hut No single advertisements less ried it to th* nntslHW- nf +"ho *i+i ar,A than SI No discount allowed on less than 0 on THE SIN OF SILENCf is why did she wait a year after dis-- HOT TIMES IN EGYPT V1m!n 1 S rCIND O_F v*~ A little instance which is illuminaC^ ing. A colored man was arrested in Chicago last week charged with hav ing assaulted a white woman with a club, breaking her skulL A doctor" diagnosed his case as dementia prae cox and ^he was committed to the A To sin by silence when we should protest makes cowards out of men. The human race has climbed on pro test. Had no voice been raised against injustice, ignorance and lust, the in- quisition yet would serve the law, and guillotines decide our least disputes. The few who \.are must speak and speak again to right the wrongs of many.-Ella Wheeler Wilcox. die di wha at OOm got th corpsefindin-g car dea tft ot tn three mont&s contract Cas must accom-.Lord, burneNineteen it to a crisp. hancdh arged pany all orders from parties unknown to us. C0Ufl Further particulars on appi'catioan mams were then returned to the hos- Readlng notices 25 cents peUline, each insertion, pital. This happened in the- citv of No discount's foirn or space Reading A i. head lie A tte etime dourbieti0s matter set in brevier typeabout six Augusta, tra., in the Year of Ou broke into ol he Cit and outsKirt Hundred TV,: Twentye 4.1. 1 A, CURIOSITY CAUSES COMPLAINT. The daily papers are publishing a story of a woman in New York whose husband was something like old Blue Beard, that he had a closet in hisace house, which he kept locked and gave his wife strict orders to keep out of it. Of course this made her all the more anxious to learn what was in that closet. So when her husband went away on a trip a year ago her curiosity got the better of her, and she opened the closet. She found there a group photograph of her hus band's family and discovered he was colored. Ye Gods and little fishes! this was terrible, so, NOW, she islong seeking an annulment of their mar riage. What we would like to know happen' the United States has done so much psycopathic hospital for treatment, i absolutely true .65 What woul1d have happened in Geor- the history of the colored people in wher hospita Moue Ord* Post CHce Money Order, Re- Georgima summehri when to prevent the full attainment of citi- sumS wWi^iSiSe as 3SS? wo alast was involved. A col-(zsnship aV that-speech of- Booker tevemn ob. Hno a whit oredt1man,thshotb a 0 a white man and in, Washington delivered in Atlanta, Ga., S a *firearms )every da JIM CROW LEADERS. We had in a recent issue a sympo- desire of President Harding to havef more "negro Plaret says: THE SOUTH IS FULL OF THIS KIND OF LEADERS. ER T. WASHINGTON DI~ PART IN DEVELOPING THIS bers of' the House No single thing in in 1895. Since then the descent to hell has been swift and sure and the depths were sounded when the other day, Warren G. Harding, President of the Unitedf States, stood by the side of the Grad^y monument in Atlanta", pro nounced a eulogy on Henry W. Grady, the most bitter, dangerous and insidious enemy of the colored people that the country has produced, de clared that the race question must be settled by the segregation of Ameri can citizens. Lured on by the enthusiastic recep tion by the South of the B. Washing ton speech and the white man's "good negro" pat on the shoulder, the jimcrow leaders' tribe has increased so enprmously that it is now a men to be reckoned with in every com munity in which there ai'e a hundred colored men. Before he died Booker Washington repented in bitterness what he hadwe done and longed for life to wash out his unwise course but it was too late. Although it may be news to many, it is a fact that after his death an ar ticle, written by him, was printed in a leading magazine, in which he re pudiated segregation which he had so championed. No greatepeoplethay ne covery before instituting proceedings leaders." for divorce He certainly must have looked pretty good to her when she EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES. married him fourteen years ago and President Harding and Secretary during the period she lived with him Hughes "have been moved" by corn- up to the time of her discovery. Her plaints from Americans in the near ,discovery has not changed him one east and have demanded equal op- bit. he is the same man she promised iportunities for Americans in Persia to love, honor and obey and if she (and Mesopotamia. It seems that had kept her promise might be living [those who kick getdatp leaslt some of happily with the man of her choice, the thingst tk The British government has or- 1 While the dered all possessors of firearms to t.o LEADERSHIP. IN LAT-1 "moonshine" as I EXTENT OF ELIMINATING THE' PRINCIPLES OF MANHOOD, WITHOUT WHICH NO RACE CAN RISE TO THE FULL HEIGHT OF AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP. hard enough and in jinison. are subject to /"Americans at home." Colored wa ri S court-martial and the penalty on con- Americans have been, jimcrowed in The Egyptians being mostly Mo- The President's speeches in Alabama hammedans and having no fear of an Georgia were curses upon pa- death, claim they are fighting for lib- troitic Americans and double curses erty and declare they will "shoot a because some lickspittle "leaders" Briton a day" until the return of (attempted to condone them. Said Zagloul Pasha, who has been ar rested and banished by the English. ER YEARS E REALIZED THAT they actually took the measure seri-!" HE HAD GONE TOO FAR, TO THE ously enough as to pass it. What I This is a strong statement yet it is senate. If made into a law it will JU THE MAN WHO DARES I honor the man who in the consci entious discharge of his duty dares to stand alone the world, with ignorant, intolerant judgment, may condemn, the countenances of relatives may be averted, and the hearts of friends grow cold, but the sense of duty done shallWis be sweeter than the" applause of the world,jthe countenances of relatives orS1^ the hearts of friends.Charles Sumner.5 &asN3ya&: fef. HtawP^ Corder calamit could befall colore the harvest cro "jimcro negro klcke eop they complain about. And colore "What fools we mortals be." the President would sit up and take administration is quick come to the surrender them within four days. Per- broad," it doehs* not hesitate to curse sons holdineg aide ofn"Americans er i America THEY ARE FULL OF MOONSHINE Of all the fool things that we have heard of lately, comes from-*he be nighted state of South Carolina, sium of views of colored editors in where one J". Walter Moon a mem- various parts of the country on the ber of the state legislature, has in-York speaches of President Harding in Bir- troduced a bill in that august body, mmgham, Ala., and Atlanta, Ga. which is intended to prohibit the One of the strongest, of these is an showing of pictures in colored motion editorial from the Richmond (Va.)' picture houses that contain the faces Planet, by that fearless journalist, of white women. He states that it John Mitchell, Jr. Referring to the is a crime to have colored men and women gazing at faces of white leaders developed, The women on the screen, and so would make a drastic law compelling col ored motion picture houses to show DR. BOOK- pictures of colored^ people only. And, HIS it seems, that a majority of the mem-And are as full of Moon himself,, forr xxii un.i- iiiuuusmm as io/, pass the asinine color prejudice -of the average Southerner will not cause him to do is beyond our ken. We understand that the bill now awaits action in the South Carolina $.1 1 -s sife .*rL~a=C represent one of the most remarkable precedents ever established even in southern lawmaking bodies. HOW ABOUT IT, MR. FROEf Since the last issue of THE AP PEAL we have learned more about the recently appointed recorder of deeds for the District of Columbia, Arthur G. Froe. He is a resident of Welch, W. Va., where he has been a member of the bar for twenty years and stands high with the legal fra ternity. He has been very active and successful in Republican politics in Ins native state. He is well educated and a fluent speaker. All well and good^ -and we congratulate him upon his- recognition as worthy of reward for services rendered, but we have not changed our attitude of last week in asking, has le been selected, for the reason that ike all of the other colored men who have been given places under the present regime, he will head a jitn crow office? Will the office of Re-at of Deeds be a segregated place? The colored people who sup ported Harding have a right to know. And the colqred people ought to rise in thelf might, if they have any, and protest against any more jimcrow business. RAPS AMERICAN CHRISTIANS In a recent interview a Japanese gentleman walloped the American Christian hypocrites in these words and hits the nail on the head: "I am a Christian, but I cannot leconcile the rules which Christianity taught me with American practices. Americans are overly suspicious and narrow hearted. Our nation is sup posedly anti-Christian, but we have broader hearts. "American missionaries teach us that ail people are equal, so we wel come Ameiicans, let you travel throughout Japan unmolested, buy property, engage in business, and people when you are in Japan, do not practice in America what your missionaries teach us we must do, if want to be Christians. Even the missionaries do not practice what they preach when they America." CRINGING AWAKENS'CONTEMPT. We cannot win by blinking at facts or by ignoring -fundamental princi ples. Editor J. Q. Adams of the ST. PAUL APPEAL is sound to the core and we shall all have to accept his give you equa. rights with our own \Z^t dtfS. *Sj p'reactd I You kind of leadership if we expect to at-J evermixture gradation ofEuropeans.a tain our full stature and status under the American Constitution. Cringing may be comfortable for the time be ing put it is mighty humiliating for all the time thereafter and it awakens contempt for us as it should do insometimes the minds and hearts of our adver saries. Editor Adams points the wayunder whether we accept his advice 01 notgiving and sooner or later he wil blaze the way to our financial, industrial and political enfranchisement in this country where none will dare molest us or make us afraid. Wise colored leaders will take notice and govern themselves accordingly. The foregoing from The Planet of Richmond, Va., edited by Hon. John Mitchell, Jr., who recently polled 20,000 votes as candidate for gov ernor of the state, is pleasing to thethe editor but we accept it as a tribute to the cause for which THE APPEAL has fought for nearly forty years -rather than a personal compliment. HARDING GETS ANOTHER RAP. At the annual meeting of the Na tional Association for the Advance ment of Colored People, held in New last week, Charles Edward Rus fell, orator and author welcomed the advent -of the "new Negro" who, he declared, was ready to stand up for his rights. He also ridiculed Presi dent Harding's assertion that there was an "impassable gulf" between col ored and white people in the United States and advocated that, before at tempting to lead the world to disar mament, the United States disarm the lyncher within her own borders. so say we all! Here is one paragraph from Mr. Russell's speech: "I must frankly \,h. a gentleman who said that, Hardin Slden g." said Mr. Russell, "that you don't know what you're talking about. If this great gulf you speak of between the races which you speak of exists, what does it look like? Have you a photograph of it? There is no such gulf, and the only limit to the development of you col ored people is the one you place your selves." Protest always pays. For some time^ the people of India have been making "silent protest" against the many injustices from whicfr they suf fer and now it seems that results are about to be achieved. The govern ment has introduced^ several bills for the repeal of nearly all of the repres sive and restrictive laws now on theall statute books.4 _* And becausie they have protested, England will give independence to the Egyptians. Down South,^Moton -et al are lauding the brutal people whp have stolen the rights of the col ored" people and restricted them to a jimcrow place in the social scheme. Governor-General Wood announces that he will follow the policy out lined in the report of the Wood Forbes mission as the basis of ad- mJMstration in the Philippines. All of whi^T translated means that the Pffipinosvwin not get^fche freedom which the United States promised flie%^' l^llgl* ?i^schools., STAR OFJACF SHINES BRIGHT IN WEST INDIES commons THERE MOST FAVOR DEVELOPEMEHT. By PHILIP KINSLEY. (Chicago Tribune Foreign,News Service.) (Copyright, 1922, by The Chicago Tribune.) (Reprinted by Permission.) Kingston, Jamaica.In the West Indies, and not in a chimerical repub lic in Africa, lies the opportunity of the Negro race to take the next great step forward in its history. Jamaica, least, is becoming a black man's land, and the future lies rather in the use to which the Negroes put their power than in a fresh influx of nor thern blood and capital either from England or America. Here, if anywhere, the Negroes, whites and browns live peacefully to gether. There are no racial antipa thies. There are no riots or lynch ings. There are no crimes against white women. The race question sim ply does not exist it is not discussed as a problem. Here the Negro and the mixed strains may work their way upward from primitive jungle in hibitions and under conditions impos sible in the United States. "I feel more at home here," said a black girl who had just come from New Jersey. Home of Agitator Marcus Garvey, a colored agitator v/ho attained power over the people of his race in N*ew York and Chicago, comes from Jamaica, but he is a prophet without great honor here. His people say that he should have re mained a home home and worked. He was here a few months ago with his famous black star navy, but he had that the colored people owe allegiance neither to the British nor the Amer ican flag, but only to the flag of the Black republic. Garvey was so seditious in his ex pressions here that the American con return to kul at Kingston refused to vise his passport to permit him to go home, but political pressure was brought to bear at Washington, and he finally left. Intelligent and Energetic In this island of 1,000,000. inhabi r?J iJ"'* $ *r^ color as result with Thos that appear white are so considered and accepted socially. They are high ly intelligent and energetic, and but for the facts that they consider them selves superior to the blacks, which irritates the latter, they would be the natural leaders. American industry is the chief one here, and American medical work the Rockefeller foundation is the first real ideas of sanita tion and public health. American doctors are stamping out the hookworm, and every peasant in the hills knows the doctors in their Fords. In some districts eighty per cent of the people are infected. There is a great deal of religion, but it has little effect practically. Witchcraft is still common here. There is little serious crime, there being only three of four murders in a year. The schools are few and are poorly attended. About 25,000 in dentured East Indians are working on big sugar estates. Representative Fordney of Michi gan has introduced a bill in the house proposing a loan of $5,000,000 to Li beria. The Liberians seem to want the money and the president was in the U. S. last year making an appeal for it but THE APPEAL believes it to be a dangerous matter. If the money is loaned and not promptly paid it will be an excuse for the United^ States to go in ^nd take pos session, and thus get a foothold in Africa, and then Uncle Sam will pro ceed to mistreat and murder the Li berians just as he did in Haiti. The Liberians would do well to sidestep that loan. The supreme court of North Car olina has just decided that sehools are not necessities. Long ago the white people of the state decided that education was not necessary for the colored children, about thirty cents per capita, more or less for their instruction while the white chil dren received about fifty times 'as much. North "Caliny" is a great^ld commonwealth, more or less. President Harding evidently has a keen sense of the ridiculous. He has recently appointed Brig. Gen. John H. Russell to investigate conditions in Haiti. It will be recalled that Rus sell, as Colonel Russell, \tas in com mand in Haiti when the outrages com plained of were perpetrated. In other words, he will investigate what hap pened under his own regime. A campaign to have legislatures of jstates pass a bill requiring regu lafcourses in the study of the United States Constitution has been started in New York. Illinois, Iowa, Michi gan and Vermont have such a law. What will Georgia, Mississippi and Texas, where they violate the Consti tution every day, have to say about the matter? r% &^* ffiSh 20 00 Brow C0l0re V6 persons? only a ie generations re moved from slavery. Between them and a few thousand whites there is CEDAR 1206 &r. Prof. Kelly Miller of Howard uni versity is like the proverbial cow who gives a pail of milk and then kicks it over. Miller wrote a strong artiele in reply to President Harding's southern speeches and then spoiled all by first lauding* B. Washington and then writing in ^favor of -Jimcrow Steady. ILellv' "f *!*.^5tf ''jk^ "^T Dr. Wetter's Antiseptic Tooth Powder Hosiery. Cutlery Sets 198 W THIRD ST. TBI,. TOWBB 4188 BUY YOUR J***!^? 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